NBC Boston is looking for a Freelance Assignment Desk Editor. This is a part-time project/limited term role with an estimated duration of up to 8 to 12 months. This role is based in Needham, MA. The salary range is $25 to $30 per hour. To learn more, refer to this job description.

TVLine is a website that covers TV news, previews, interviews, exclusives, and more. They’re seeking Freelance TV News Writers. They’re particularly interested in “writers with a strong background knowledge in Star Trek, The Big Bang Theory, Taylor Sheridan programs, procedurals, Blue Bloods, The Office, The Pitt, and classic sitcoms of the 1960s and 1970s.” The candidates should have at least 3 years of experience. The role is remote and pays $21 to $25 per hour. For more information, click here.

House Digest is a home design and lifestyle website. They’re seeking Freelance Home & Lifestyle News Writers. They’re looking for “creative, self-motivated individuals who can produce high-quality, engaging content independently spanning everything from houseplant care and lawn maintenance to thrifting finds and kitchen appliance recommendations.” The applicants should have 3+ years’ writing or editing experience. This is a remote freelance position with flexible hours and consistent work. The compensation range is $21 to $25 per hour. To learn more, refer to this page.

Business Insider covers business, personal finance, tech, lifestyle, politics, and more. Their lifestyle & entertainment editor is looking to commission some new stories. Some of the topics they’re looking for right now are:

- “First-person essays from people who have withdrawn from their retirement accounts early to travel or make a big move”

- “Personal essays from folks who have moved to/from/within the US”

- “First-person experientials about ferry/train rides, flight upgrades, and cruises”

Rates begin at $230 for 600 words. For details, refer to their lifestyle & entertainment editor’s post and this form.

Complex covers music, pop culture, sneakers, news, and shows. They’re hiring for the position of Staff Writer, Complex Bets, Freelance. The selected applicant will “collaborate daily with the ComplexBets Editor to produce a high volume of editorial content: 1 feature article per day (5/week) and 2 news posts per day (10/week), all covering sports through a betting and predictive markets lens.” The applicant should have 2 to 3 years of experience. This is a contract role based in New York, with a pay rate of $30 per hour. For details, read this job description.

The Margins is “a magazine of literature, arts, and ideas, dedicated to inventing the Asian American creative culture of tomorrow.” They’re seeking pitches and submissions to Open City:

“The Margins seeks pitches and submissions to Open City, its journalism section devoted to chronicling the pulse of Asian America. Through articles, features, interviews, and profiles, Open City covers Asian immigrant and Muslim communities with an emphasis on social, racial, and gender justice issues.

While Open City previously focused on the lived stories of Asian communities in the boroughs of New York City, we are now eager to accept pitches about communities in cities and towns all over the United States. We also welcome internationally reported stories.

We are looking for shoeleather reporting, hybrid essays, personality and place profiles, features, narrative storytelling, and more.”

Rates range from $150 to $450 per piece. To learn more, refer to their call for submissions and rate sheet.

The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild (SWG) is a not-for-profit cultural organization that “acts as an advocate to improve the status of Saskatchewan writers; encourages the development of writers at all levels; and strives to improve public access and awareness to Saskatchewan writers and their work.” They’re seeking pitches for articles, series, and industry interviews for Freelance, their magazine on the craft and business of writing. Rates are 20¢ per word. To learn more, refer to their call for pitches.

Athlete To Athlete is “a fast growing sports-tech startup whose mission is to build the next generation of driven, confident, and resilient student-athletes through mentorship.” They’re seeking a Freelance Copywriter to work within their Marketing team to support multiple projects. The copywriter should have 3+ years of experience. This is a remote, freelance role, averaging 15 to 30 hours per week. Candidates located on the West Coast in PST will be preferred. Rate is $25 to $40 per hour. To learn more, refer to this page.

Opportunity for a Freelance Copywriter: “We’re looking for a freelance copywriter with a refined luxury sensibility to partner with a leading retail real estate company on elevating brand positioning across both client‑ and consumer‑facing touchpoints.” This role is fully remote and pays $40 per hour. If interested, send your resume and portfolio to nmorrissey@onwardsearch.com. For details, click here.

Slate is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their features editor is seeking health and science features from journalists and writers. A good Slate feature “changes how the readers understand the world, makes them feel something, and is impossible to put down.” According to a previous post by this editor, rates are approximately $1,500 for features (2,500+ words). Send your pitches to shannon.palus@slate.com. To learn more, refer to their features editor’s post and their general pitch guide.

Film Daze is “an independent publication and media outlet that provides a platform for the unheard, and underrepresented voices of the film community.” They’re accepting pitches for their Issue 01. There is no theme. Payment is $120 for Issue 01, $150 for Issues 02-03, and $200 for Issue 04 and beyond, based on the paid subscriber base at the time. The submission deadline for the first issue is June 1st. Interested writers should send their pitches to editorial@filmdaze.net. To learn more, refer to their submissions page.  

Poynter is a school that teaches and inspires journalists and media leaders. They’re always open to pitches. They’re excited to hear from “writers with smart, original, nuanced pitches about journalism and the people who make it happen.” They publish “reported stories, analysis and essays that help readers better understand how news works — and how it sometimes doesn’t.” Their general rates are 50 cents/word for reported articles and 25 cents/word for nonreported opinion or analysis. If interested, send your pitches to pitch@poynter.org. To learn how to pitch them, refer to this page.

Mslexia is a magazine for women who write. Their production editor is seeking pitches for their upcoming June issue. They publish features in three categories: CRAFT, CAREER and CREATIVITY. Rate is £250 per piece (about 1,800 words). If interested, send your pitches to maxine@mslexia.co.uk by the end of the week. To learn more, refer to their production editor’s post and their general submissions page.

Revenue Rulebreaker produces “stories and events about how microentrepreneurs actually make a living online.” For May, they’re looking for pitches related to parenthood and entrepreneurship. The deadline to submit your pitches is March 31. For June, they’re looking for pitches from queer and transgender writers on their experiences with entrepreneurship. The deadline to send your pitches is April 30. They’re also seeking “pitches about payment systems/processors particularly from entrepreneurs outside the US about barriers, opportunities and options for processing money.” The current rate is $200 per story. For more information, refer to this post and their contributor guide.

Slate is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their senior tech editor is seeking ambitious features and personal essays for their Business & Tech section: “I’m interested in stories about the surprising ways tech and business are reshaping our lives, work, and culture. Strong characters, deep reporting, and big ideas always welcome.” Typical features run 1,200 to 2,000 words. Rates are generally $500 to $800. There is no deadline to pitch. If interested, direct your pitches to tony.tran@slate.com. To learn more, refer to their senior tech editor’s post and their general pitch guide.

Junkee Media is an Australian digital media company that produces youth-focused news, culture, and lifestyle content through brands like Junkee and Punkee. Their head of editorial is seeking freelancers for both Junkee and Punkee mastheads, with assignments starting in April. They’re looking for the following for each brand:

- Punkee

“First-person, reported or opinion pieces on lifestyle (fashion, beauty, mental health, home + decor) from an identity perspective, with the data to back it up where needed. Punkee is how we perceive and understand ourselves, so that personal pov is essential.”

- Junkee

“Meaty reported pieces (that’s multiple sources/experts and weaving a narrative together) or zeitgeisty analysis (with evidence!) within the social justice/news/political space and through an Australian lens, but will consider the occasional pop culture (music, film, tv, gaming) pitch.”

Rates start at $300 AUD. If interested, send your pitches to sophie.hanson@junkeemedia.com. To read their head of editorial’s post, click here. To visit their website, click here.

Observer is a website about business, arts, and entertainment. They’re seeking a Freelance Finance Reporter to cover “economic policy, banking news, and major tech stocks.” The reporter should have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in business or financial journalism. Their standard rate is $200-$300 for an article for 600-800 words. This opportunity is limited to applicants based in the U.S. If interested, email your resume to business@observer.com. To learn more, refer to their business editor’s post and this job description.

HuffPost Life is a section in HuffPost (a news and opinion website) that covers food, drink, wellness, beauty, style, relationships, home, and more. They’re looking for freelancers: “Are you a news junkie? Are you curious about how the news affects our own personal lives? HuffPost Life is looking for daily freelancers who can turn around quick, timely service journalism stories related to the news of the day. If you enjoy speaking to experts about everything from politicians’ body language to tariffs, we’d love to hear from you.” If interested, email hplife@huffpost.com. Rates for assignments begin at $350. To learn more, refer to this post and their website.

Cake Zine is an independent print magazine that explores society through sweets. They’re open to pitches for their eighth issue, Spoiled Rotten, exploring extravagance, excess, and decay: “Tell us what you think is stale, overripe, and curdled—in the fridge, on the menu, or in our culture. Or extend your gaze from the trash to the compost pile to share how new life can come from rot or how culinary ingenuity can be borne from ingredients past their prime. We're looking for both what's lost and what’s gained when things go bad.” To learn more, refer to their post and call for pitches.

Shadowbanned Magazine is “unapologetic media for the next generation of the political left — independent, people-powered, and rooted in the worlds of politics and culture.” They’re accepting pitches for their Issue 05:

“Share with us your boldest essays, reviews, interviews, reports, articles, poems, features, and whatever else would never get a mainstream media editor’s approval. Work that challenges the status quo and pokes at the machinery behind it.”

“We’re looking for work whose ideology sits somewhere within the framework of the political left… and no, that doesn’t mean liberal. We’re not interested in critiques of dicktatorsheeps halfway across the world unless it’s our own in the so-called land of the free.”

They pay $50 for 800-1,000 words, $75 for 1,100-1,500 words, $100 for 1,600-2,000 words, and a flat rate of $60 for poetry and artwork. To learn more, refer to their post and submission guidelines.

The Metropole is the Urban History Association’s official blog. They’re seeking submissions for their next theme month: Cities at Play. “We welcome submissions about any aspect of play, recreation, or leisure in the urban environment. How have cities uniquely shaped the way their inhabitants play, and how has play in turn shaped the built environment, the social dynamics, and the politics of cities? Please send pitches to themetropole@urbanhistory.org by Friday, March 20th.” Rate is $200 per post (1,000 to 1,500 words). To learn more, refer to this post and this page.

Green European Journal is a political ecology magazine. They’re seeking pitches for their next print edition which will explore Europe’s new demographic reality. They’re looking for essays, interviews, photo essays, graphic journalism, comics, and more. Below are some topics and angles you could cover:

- Demographic adaptation

- Cultural divides and representation

- Movement of people

- The reactionary tide

- Global, technological, geopolitical aspects

According to a post by their editor-in-chief, rates are usually €300-€400. Find more details here and here.

The Contrapuntal is “an independent non-profit publication devoted to delivering rigorously researched, accessible, and factually accurate journalism from a ground-up perspective.” They’re accepting pitches for a new project, Post-Panoptics: Embodied Surveillance and the Architectures of Control. They invite “investigative journalists, academics, artists, and practitioners to map how power concentrates through the surveillance gaze — and how we might analyse and understand it.” They’re commissioning deep-dive investigative features (5,000 words, €1,000), visual essays (€1,000), illustrated graphic essays (€1,000), analytical op-eds (2,500-3,000 words, €500), and artistic features (€200 honorarium). If interested, send your pitches to submissions.thecontrapuntal@protonmail.com. For details, refer to their post and call for submissions.